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When I tried it half the menus were covered with HTML-related stuff. Perhaps that's changed, and perhaps they can be removed. It doesn't give a first good impression. On second impression, I found a shortage of shortcuts to navigate around text. Again, probably configurable but points to a more mouse-oriented approach which I dislike (a general reproach for most things Mac it would seem -- I tend to expect at the very least Ctrl-arrow, Ctrl-Shift-arrow, Ctrl-Backspace-arrow, Ctrl-Del-Arrow where "arrow"

You may have been using Bizarro BBEdit... only one of the menus is related to HTML, the one called "Markup". And you can even turn it off, last I checked. And it was never more than that. There are a few other places in the menus where you may see HTML stuff (like under Window -> Palettes), but that is about it for menus.

A good 1/4 - 1/3 of the Preferences are related to HTML, but those can be ignored if you don't use it for HTML.

Some of those are handled using standard Mac OS key commands. For example, opt-arrow jumps words, and opt-shift-arrow selects words as you jump (shift selects, remember that you can usually add shift to a function to select whatever you are doing).Some of them may not be supported by Mac OS standards or by BBEdit's basic functionality, but BBEdit also has an emacs mode, where it supports all emacs key commands... of course, we know how you feel about emacs.:-)

Yes, I didn't say there were none of them! Default win/lin OS settings don't have enough to my taste either (I tend to want to use those anywhere I can type text in). Thankfully Textpad and Kate solve that nicely.

I saw that Qt/Mac was just release (yay!). I'll see if I can get Kate running after work:)